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More than 6,500 attendees gathered at the closing gala banquet of the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries in New York City.
It has been likened to the pamphlet, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”
Unit 121—Hezbollah’s internal assassination and surveillance arm—abducted the 70-year-old politician on Aug. 1, 2023, according to the Israeli military.
The 27-year-old was kidnapped by Gazan terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023, from the Nova music festival.
An inquiry suggested the incident stemmed from a “disagreement over a photograph,” though the review of the guard’s conduct remains ongoing.
“We hope the international community will focus on the pains in Africa at least as much as they focused on their obsession with the State of Israel.”
For many, “support for Israel is faith-based,” says the director of the Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem.
“It would be very easy” to conclude from a floor speech by Sen. Chris Coons that “Jews in the first century only helped and supported their own,” the scholar Malka Simkovich told JNS.
The pope and Abbas previously spoke by phone on July 21 to discuss the fighting in the Gaza Strip and tensions in Judea and Samaria.
Analysts weighed in on U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan, cautioning of potential pitfalls.
“I didn’t know much about this Fuentes guy. I still don’t, which underscores the mistake,” the Heritage president said as he faced calls from staffers to resign over his defense of Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes.
German authorities believe that Muslim Interactive, founded in 2020, is affiliated with the global Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, which Berlin banned in 2003 for promoting violence, including against Jews.
